Re: DVD player and copying to Hard drive ...
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 08:37:27PM +0100, Dave Selby wrote:
> I am getting some DVDs and keen to try playing them on the PC
>
> I believe there are two majour DVD players, one is, xine but I do not know
> the name of the other, can anyone fill me in ?
mplayer rocks :)
its not in debian unless you use some sources from apt-get.org but
building from source is easy --make sure you compile in xv support.
> Secondly how do I copy a DVD to my hard drive ? Since it has no OS it will
> not mount ... would I use
> dd if=/dec/cdrom of=/home/web/<movie title>
> Or is it more complex ... I suspect it is .. !
i think that would work, mplayer reads raw mpeg2 [dvd] .bin files
--
Hugh
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